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George Jucan

August 27, 2007





Most project managers have the accountability to deliver their projects, but few have the right level of authority required for the job. Without formal authority, the project manager can rarely force the team members to perform the assigned tasks and must rely on leadership abilities to motivate the people to get the job done.
 
Clearly, there are some people who are born to be leaders. History offers great examples of people with natural leadership capabilities that have been able to inspire and move millions: Alexander the Great, Winston Churchill and Martin Luther King are just a few.
 
How about the rest of us? Well, it seems to me that a project manager must have some leading capabilities already acknowledged by the organization and peers, otherwise they would not have been entrusted with the project in the first place. For example, the desire of organizing the activity of others is a clear sign of leadership capabilities--not everyone wants to stick its head out of the crowd.



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